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Published 11/30 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

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5 More SharePoint Pitfalls To Avoid (InformationWeek)
Azaleos, which provides managed email, collaboration, and unified communications services for Microsoft environments, has offered 10 pieces of advice to help SharePoint 2010 users manage the document-sharing platform. Monday, I outlined the first five of 10 tips Azaleos outlines in the report, "10 Ways to Optimize SharePoint 2010 for Peak Performance." The five remaining tips, listed below, include managing Active Directory, provisioning adequate storage, and avoiding the perils of bringing external search data into the SharePoint platform.

The Art of SharePoint Success: Strategy - SharePoint as an Application Development Platform (CMSWire)
This is article six in the epic saga exploring my Art of SharePoint Success framework for achieving long-term business benefits from investments in SharePoint based initiatives, (eagle eyed readers will note that last month’s article claimed to be number 6, it was in fact number 5).
 There are four elements to the framework: 1.Governance; 2.Strategy; 3.Architecture; 4.Transition.

How Siri Could Make Collaboration Mobile (InformationWeek)
Before collaboration software can evolve from document-centric systems to social-network-based comment streams, the client interface has to be set free from the PC. Sure, many systems, whether Facebook for personal use or enterprise products like Chatter, Podio, and Yammer, have mobile clients, but have you ever tried to use one? And that goes double for small-screen smartphones. Like mobile email, these interfaces are OK for viewing updates and occasionally posting a short reply but not so good for extended discussions--they generally represent a minor improvement over using the mobile browser but are far from replacing the full-featured, keyboard-based PC client. Tablets somewhat improve things merely by virtue of size--their larger touch screens are easier to navigate--but as with email, for anything requiring more than a short paragraph, you're yearning for a keyboard. And as smartphones assume an increasing share of our connected existence, the disconnect between our preferred device form and our collaboration software interfaces will become more painful. Houston, we have a problem.

Microsoft Issues First Major Office 365 Update, Revamps SkyDrive (Redmond Channel Partner)
Microsoft on Tuesday announced major updates to two of its cloud-based services, Office 365 and SkyDrive. Microsoft launched Office 365 -- a cloud-based productivity suite that includes hosted versions of Office, Lync, Exchange and SharePoint -- in late June. According to this Microsoft wiki page, it has received two minor service updates since then: one in September and one in October. However, the update announced on Tuesday is Office 365's "first major service update," Microsoft said in its press release.

4 Azure Milestones Microsoft Must Hit — and Soon (GigaOm)
Next year could be a very big year for Windows Azure, Microsoft’s nearly two-year-old Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). And, it better be, given the investment in manpower and dollars Microsoft poured into the effort, which has not been as widely adopted as the company must have hoped. (Publicly, company execs are very happy with Azure’s traction, of course.) The ambitious Azure platform launched in Feb. 2010 with a lot of fanfare and expectations. A year later, Microsoft claimed 31,000 subscribers, although it was unclear how many of them paid.  But since then, Azure lost steam and unlike Amazon, Heroku, VMware and other big names in the cloud, it just doesn’t get much love from the web developers it needs to woo.

Microsoft Office for the iPad: Should they? Could they? Will they? (ZDNet)
The Daily is reporting via unnamed sources that Microsoft is planning to roll out Office for the iPad in 2012. I’d be more surprised if the Softies didn’t roll out some kind of Office release for the iPad, given they’ve already done OneNote for the iPhone and are continuing to support Office on Macs. No brainer or not, The Daily’s November 29 report stirs up the age-old debate for Microsoft when it comes to all of its software and services. Would it be more profitable and preferable for Microsoft to keep a given product or service a Windows-only offering? Or would Microsoft make more money and attract more users by porting their apps to non-Windows-based platforms?

Windows Tablet DOA? Don’t Buy the Hype (ChannelNomics)
Forrester Research has some damning numbers for Microsoft: Not only is it missing out on the tablet revolution, but the party will be long over when it finally shows up some time in 2012. According to a new report by analysts JP Gownder and Sarah Rotman, end-user desires for a Windows tablet have plummeted from the market-leading position in the first quarter of the year to third place in the third quarter. The report comes just a month after the Boston Consulting Group released a similar report that showed huge pent-up demand for Windows tablets in the U.S. and China.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Sandbox Solutions are Not the Agile Way to Bypass Application Lifecycle Management Process (SharePointDevWiki)
In my role, I get to speak with a lot of enterprise customers – including many in the Fortune 500 – about all things SharePoint. Based on the conversations, especially as of late, a common theme is emerging: Developers that work with customers externally – or even in-house teams – seem to be pushing for sandbox solutions, which is not what you’d expect. Typically, you’d expect IT Pros and Governance Committees to be pushing sandbox solutions from an isolation perspective on customizations. I found this quite puzzling, as sandbox solutions by design have a limited SharePoint API subset and are scoped to the site collection and below. Subsequently, this puts huge constraints on what can be built compared to full-trust solutions.

When Does Requirements 'Gathering' Becomes 'Business Process Engineering'? (The Scribble SharePoint Blog)
Wikipedia (not the perfect source I admit but good enough for this comparison) defines requirement gathering as: "obtaining the requirements of a system from users, customers and other stakeholders". Those that regularly take part in requirements gathering will understand it involves generally talking to users and finding out exactly what they want from a new system, be it a SharePoint Intranet or a bespoke IT system.

Video Best Practices & Lessons Learned for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade With Joel Oleson (SharePointEduTech)
On Wednesday the 16th November I had the great pleasure of hosting a webinar with Joel Oleson talking about lessons learnt when upgrading to SharePoint 2010. So I am very pleased that the recording of the webinar is now available and can be found below. Some great advice can be found in the webinar.

Jeff Teper Hits SharePoint Governance on the Head (AIIM)
During the recent SPC11 keynote presentation, Jeff Teper of Microsoft stood tall and proud and stated: “Governance is not an issue in SharePoint 2010… we have lots of customers doing it on a large scale.” Absolutely Jeff, spot on, you’ve hit it on the head…

 

Around Bamboo Nation
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: How to Create a Custom Page Layout for Publishing Sites Using Visual Studio 2010 (SharePoint 2010)
As stated in an MSDN article, "Publishing in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is fundamentally a means of authoring and displaying information by using a set of templates." An Office article adds: "Each publishing page is associated with a page layout. The page layout controls the look and feel of the publishing pages that are created from it. It also defines the fields where contributors can enter various types of article content, such as article titles, graphics, quotations, and unstructured text." Creating a custom page layout using SharePoint Designer is very straightforward, presenting users with a "what you see is what you get" UI, but using Visual Studio offers its own distinct advantages to creating custom page layouts.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
Intranet/SharePoint Developer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This position resides within our Marketing Systems Team in IT Corporate Applications and will be responsible for developing and supporting SharePoint Intranet web parts, web services, and workflows. The individual will work with the Intranet Lead and the Marketing department to determine the project requirements for enhancements and new initiatives. This person will have responsibility for developing and interpreting technical specifications used to support interfaces, reports, business rules, and other technical components of the environment, understanding project management concepts and deliverables. This person will need to be able to document and pro-actively address change management and governance issues and assist in creating test plans, test scripts/cases and executing test scripts to test developed objects where applicable.

SharePoint Administrator - Jacksonville, Florida
We are seeking an individual with 3 or more years of SharePoint 2007/2010 Administration, Farm Architecture, Farm Services, problem determination and security. They need demonstrated experience with SharePoint 2007/2010 Central Admin, IIS experience and have worked within a multi-server SharePoint Farm environment. They need to be able to provide 24x7 on call support within a rotation with other SharePoint Administrators. Deep knowledge of the following: Windows 2008 Server environments, IIS administration, XML, InfoPath, MOSS Business Data Catalog and BCS configuration, Excel Services, Search Service Applications. Experience configuring a SharePoint -based extranet platform. Experience with and understanding of clustered and load-balanced systems. Experience with application installation, data conversion and testing. Ability to produce effective results in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment. Ability to work well with others, harness different skills and experience, and build a strong sense of team spirit. Ability to work effectively in a culturally and educationally diverse environment. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification in SharePoint is preferred.

 

Microsoft Updates
Deploying Branding Solutions for SharePoint 2010 Sites Using Sandboxed Solutions (MSDN)
The SharePoint development tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 provide a simple and effective approach to packaging and deploying the files and code that are required to apply branding to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 sites using a sandboxed solution. This article describes a best practice for creating sandbox-compatible branding solutions by using custom master pages, cascading style sheets (CSS files), and images that can be deployed to SharePoint 2010 farms that are running either SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010.

 

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